Montana sculptor Gareth Curtiss spent the better part of last week bringing form to his vision for the main piece of artwork at the Career and Technology Education Center, which is nearing completion on the north side of the Eastern Wyoming College campu
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TORRINGTON — Montana sculptor Gareth Curtiss spent the better part of last week bringing form to his vision for the main piece of artwork at the Career and Technology Education Center, which is nearing completion on the north side of the Eastern Wyoming College campus.
For four days, after driving from northern Montana, Curtiss worked in a classroom in the industrial arts building, piling strips of clay on to a block of plastic foam, pinching and smoothing them together until his vision had a face and a purpose; a female welder with a project of her own.
“She’ll be standing next to her project holding a TIG welder,” Curtiss said as he explained his concept to a small group of interested art enthusiasts Thursday night. “The base of her project is like a plow, something real and very western. But then it curves upward and out in an abstract. After all the future for a new welder, for all of us, is abstract.”
There is no mistaking the focal point of his piece is female and a welder, which was an appealing characteristic for EWC Vice President for Financial and Administrative Services Ron Laher, who was a member of the art selection committee, which reviewed 18 proposals from professional artists for the privilege of producing the artistic centerpiece.
“I felt that Mr. Curtiss’ proposal was head and shoulders above the rest,” Laher shared about the choice. “The selling point was the female welder.